Cripples Quote by Robert Wyatt Download Open image “I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.” — Robert Wyatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cripples Stuff Suicide Tragic Want
I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I wanted to kill the most amazing person in the world, but then I realized- suicide's a crime. — MIA Copy Share Image
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image